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Beleive thers also a small marina at Hoo Mill on the T&M where the boats dont need a licence to stay. Have heard this really P***** BW off.
You don't need a BW licence to moor in our marina, just insurance and a BSC. However, if you want to go cruising onto the Trent, then obviously a BW ticket is essential.
But, if you only go onto the river a few days a year, and there are some here who rarely move, then a 7 day permit can be issued, thus saving a couple of hundred quid a year.
The marina is council owned, possibly one of the best in the country.
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Go and stand in the naughty corner until you can be a good boy!!!
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All done!
Hopefully.
Found a few horrors along the way. The stainless cover on the transom was made from A2/304 S/S, which had started to stain/rust. The screws holding this plate on had been drilled right through the transom, the lower screws being below the waterline. The transom height had been lowered by 2 inches at some point, and it wasn't professionally done either!! (Hence the S/S cover plate)
Looks better than it did.
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Thanks Denis. According to Waterscape it is now open, but you never know!!
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Anyone been through yet?
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I don't drink at all, but I love watching others morph into their alter egos when supping.
Who do you think your alter ego is when drunk?
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That's your neck of the woods isn't it Denis?
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........................... Now I struggle with the 'user friendliness' of it all.
No such thing as a user friendly windows pc.
Now Macs on the other hand.............. (Thats Macintosh computers, NOT latex rainwear or, er, stuff)
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We fit S/S handrails and even on a standard boat that over a grands worth but we have just had a quote to fabricate some collapsible ones and that was over two and a half grand!
So it seems think of something in S/S these days and you better start counting out those beer tokens!
Surprising that, Gary. It must be the tooling involved in the fabrication putting the costs up, as S/S stock had come down in price a lot these past few years. We use tons of the stuff at work, mainly plate, along with aluminium, but S/S is a bugger to work!!!
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S'better Malc, bit easier on the eye!
Macintosh is a better system IMO.
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Have a look at this, then make your own minds up about electrics, complicated machinery and sparks!!
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My head hurts!
Was alcohol a contributary factor in the writing Malc? Does need a bit of editting, mainly to put paragraphs in. Otherwise, nice one Malc, as always!!!
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Mate of mine made a cracking looking wind turbine out of a bicycle wheel, car dynamo, a few tin cans for the vanes and some scaffolding pole. Marvellous bit of kit. Put it on top of his shed, connected the wires up to a battery and watched it charge up. The wheel was going round at fair old lick, until we realised it wasn't windy. He forgot about the motor principle of a dynamo!!! Nearly blew next doors washing off the line!!
Mind you, this was the same mate who went fishing with a shotgun, putting the barrels in the water and firing the gun, using the hydrostatic shock to kill the fish. Thankfully he got away without blowing the barrels up!!
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We are getting 2 interest rate cuts next year, this is reliable information from the B of E.
House prices fall because the media says they will, because it's either a slow news day or they've fell out with someone and they want their 'bricks and mortar' assets to be worth less so they look less attractive to a hostile take over bidder. (Cynical, me? No, used to work in the press!)
You should never, ever believe what you read in the press, the fourth estate prints/broadcasts what IT wants you to know, not necessarily the truth.
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You're welcome Mimi.
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Sweden, Norway or Denmark Denis?
Stunning colours in the sunset in Lincolnshire.
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I personally think its good that as a country we have fairly high fuel tax, and am happy to pay £1 per litre for the privalage of being able to use there fuel.
- No, actaually, i really really am.
Daniel
Understandable from someone with a coal burning conveyance!!!
I've had this email twice now, both emails worded similarly, one about boycotting Esso and BP and patronising supermarket stuff and the other as above. And it aint gonna work, not when you think it through properly. Someone has said "We'll make Monday 19th November the target day, then this will disrupt the supply". Yeah? We all know when it is, so they will too and adjust their supply chain and logistics accordingly, surely. The only ones who will suffer will be those who know nothing about it!!!
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Been doing boaty stuff all week, when not at w**k. But todays farting about was frustrating, what with spilling a load of cellulose thinners in the boot of me car, banging me head on the boat and overestimating the amount of fibreglass resin I needed to fill the void in the transom and ending up having it dribbling all over the back of the boat and not being able to stop it and running out of time half way through another job I was doing and trying to mop up the spilt thinners and and and and, Oh bugger it, I'd still rather be pissed off when working on the boat than have a perfect day at w**k!!
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Why on earth would they want to build a new wharf at Cromwell complete with a new road? There is a wharf at Sutton on Trent which could be used with direct access to the A1. This is about a mile away from Cromwell!!
It all comes down to money, the more they can spend the better, and I'm not on about BW!!
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100 yards downstream is a millionares pad that is going to be flattend to build some more pads? its all owned by the same guy.
I think you mean the Clothing Design Building, used to be owned by a clothing designer (still is probably), now some sort of college.
You say "Gin Palace" like it's a bad thing. Personally, I'd love to live in one. Especially if it was situated next to a Tonic Mansion and a Slice of Lemon Pavilion.No, not a bad thing, but would look better at the coast where it looks as if it might be used, instead of 80 miles inland.
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Thats got the makings of a good sea boat Malc.
Looks damp inside.
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Congratulations Tony, very well put. Not everyone can express themselves as thoughtfully and precisely as you have done, a lot of people don't know how!!
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not really my cup of tea, a block of flats.
I know what you mean. It will look different again once it's finished and the detailing is done.
I'm reliably informed it's called 'River Crescent'. Bet a committee thought that one up!
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A new landmark on the river Trent at Nottingham is nearing completion. The cost of the development is put at £50m (source Nottingham Evening Post) with the price of a top floor penthouse suite put at £1.5m.
The 'dwellings' are situated at Sneinton/Colwick, next door to the Park Yacht Club, and there is rumoured to be moorings available in front of the building on the river. So they're gonna be full of 52ft gin palaces that go nowhere then!! Probably.
It is an impressive looking building though, we've been following it's progress since they dug the first hole.
We really couldn't envisage what it was going to look like, obviously nothing like the artists impression that was published.
The views from the top suites will be fantastic, assuming nothing else is built in front of it on the opposite side of the river.
(Edited to remove duplication and excess negativity)
License and mooring fees
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Bull!!
There was a guy called Pythagoras who disproved that one!!
You can too. Fill a cup with water and put a grape in it. Measure how much water comes out.
Take the grape out and fill again, then put an apple in. Measure the overflow again. I suspect it may be more!!!!!!
Same principle as a lock.